Eric Kolker

Director, Hardware Development at SpaceX

Role
Director, Hardware Development at SpaceX
Location
Seattle, WA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Eric Kolker

My team has complete ownership of and end-to-end responsibility for the avionics and payload hardware on SpaceX\'s Starlink satellites. We design everything from the ground up, and our portfolio includes a little bit of everything: the flight computer, solar power conversion, star trackers, Ku-band phased array antennas, network computers, free-space laser link controllers.the list goes on.

Experience

  1. Director, Hardware Development

    SpaceX

    Dec 2025 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

Education

  • Carnegie Mellon University PreCollege 2008

    PreCollege program, Robotics, Political Science

    2008 — 2008

  • Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

    Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering

    2009 — 2013

Skills

  • Microcontrollers
  • Systems Engineering
  • C
  • Matlab
  • Engineering
  • Kicad
  • Ros
  • Control Systems Design
  • Python
  • Latex
  • Circuit Design
  • Embedded Systems
  • Simulations
  • Design for Manufacturing
  • Analog
  • Data Visualization
  • Labview
  • Pcb Design
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Photography
  • Robotics

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